some help with character sets?

[Hugbees]

Hi guys;

I'm tearing my hair out trying to figure out how to work character sets.  I can get a great sprite sheet (for example, a PNG set of Sora or Setzer or something) online, but after I load it into the material base, the "square" that selects around the specific sprite (i.e. in choosing a graphic for an event, etc.) doesn't line up properly.  For example:

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s16/evh84/hepme.jpg[/img]

I think I'm confusing myself.  Anybody have any handy links to some tileset tutorials?  Or perhaps you could share some advice as to what I'm doing wrong?

If I edit this image in a basic program (i.e. MS paint or something), can it be fixed?

Thanks for the help.


=Hugbees=

 

[shedt]

Try in photoshop. You can turn the grid on, 32 x 1 and then have it snap to grid. Then you'll need to re-size it. Not sure if this is %100 though I'm still new to this.

 

[Hugbees]

Yeah... about that...  I just moved everything on to my home computer.  No photoshop.

 

[regi]

Charactersets in XP are grouped 4x4 (16 images total). You'll have to edit the spritesheet to get it to work in-game.

Try looking at the default characters for examples.

 

[Hugbees]

eh... I'm still having problems.  Either a) the character has a white background, or b) the sprite is lined up awkwardly in the game (or both)

 

[Tindy]

All right, take your sprite sheet.  Put it in MSPaint.  Go to "Attributes" and find out how big it is.  Divide that by however many sprites are there.  Then, take 4 sprites from each section to make it 4x4, with each square as big as what you figured out (for instance, if each sprite turns out to be 40x40, you'll need a total area of 160x160).

You want the sprites to be as follows:  Standing, stepping w/ right foot, standing, stepping w/ left foot.  The top line is facing down, next is facing left, then right, then up.

 

[Brewmeister]

Hug, upload that spritesheet, or post a link to it.
One of us can do it in like 5 minutes to show you.

Be Well

[ edit ]

I just did a quick search. Here's one that's already done...

http://uirpg.com/resources/xp_gfx/1596.png[/img]

 

[Aepriz]

I think he got it from this site .
http://www.kh2.co.uk/?com=Sprites

the soar sprite seems to be the same ..

 

[Hugbees]

wow thanks guys that's handy.  I'm assuming that photoshop would make my life a lot easier when it comes to working with spritesheets, huh?

 

[Sonata]

Not necessarily, you can easily crop and move images in a program as simple as MS Paint.

 

[Aepriz]

Photoshop is handy , but ther other programmes to that can be used in the case you don't have photoshop .
Paint.net is of them as far as i remeber (using ps so long i can't remeber well).

 

[Hugbees]

I'm still having a bit of trouble.  I understand the whole 4 x 4 rule now, but when I try to insert a new sprite, I get a white background, like so:


http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s16/ ... eagain.png[/img]


There's probably an easy fix for this, right?

=Huggz=

(P.S.  In case you were wondering, yeah, that's my game)

 

[Aepriz]

When you import the sprite select the whith BG as transparant color .

 

[Hugbees]

Ah!  Looks good.  Thanks for the help, guys.

 

[Hugbees]

Actually, while we're at it, I'm having the same "white background" problem with my Battler graphic; however, there's no way to select the transparency when you import it into the materialbase.  Suggestions?

 

[regi]

No double-posting, please. Use the modify button next time.

Anyway, try editing the image with Photoshop. Select the white background and press "Delete." Make sure to save it as a .png, or it won't keep the transparency.